Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part B) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 343 369 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Bauhinia tomentosa Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 1 : 375. 1753 . "Habitat in India." RCN: 2953. Lectotype (Roti-Michelozzi in Webbia 13: 153. 1957): [icon] " Bauhinia foliis subrotundis, flore flavescente striato " in Burman, Thes. Zeylan.: 44, t. 18*. 1737. - Typotype : Herb. Burman ( G ) . Current name: Bauhinia tomentosa L. ( Fabaceae : Caesalpinioideae ). Note: De Wit (in Reinwardtia 3: 411. 1956) wrongly chose a neotype (original elements are in existence), and so Roti-Michelozzi's choice of a Burman plate appears to be the earliest. Although other authors (e.g. Isely in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(2): 190. 1975; Rudd in Dassanayake & Fosberg, Revised Handb. Fl. Ceylon 7: 38. 1991) reached different type solutions, that of Roti-Michelozzi has priority.